This week has witnessed another major flare-up in hostilities between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Facts, as always, depend on political orientation, but in short: there has been an escalation in rocket…

In London this past week, two stories have dominated the news headlines. The first is that we now have photographic proof, if such was required, that Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge and future Queen of…

When I started this blog, I picked the name “The Road Warrior”, which according to the Oxford English Dictionary is: “a person who travels frequently as part of their job and does much work while travelling”….